The Breakdown of Higher Education

How It Happened, the Damage It Does, and What Can Be Done

By: John M. Ellis

Narrated by: Bob Souer

A series of near-riots on campuses aimed at silencing guest speakers has exposed the fact that our universities are no longer devoted to the free exchange of ideas in pursuit of truth. But this hostility to free speech is only a symptom of a deeper problem, writes John Ellis. Having watched the deterioration of academia up close for the past 50 years, Ellis locates the core of the problem in a change in the composition of the faculty during this time, from mildly left-leaning to almost exclusively leftist. He explains how astonishing historical luck led to the success of a plan first devised by a small group of activists to use college campuses to promote radical politics, and why laws and regulations designed to prevent the politicizing of higher education proved insufficient.

Ellis shows that political motivation is always destructive of higher learning. Even science and technology departments are not immune. The corruption of universities by radical politics also does wider damage: to primary and secondary education, to race relations, to preparation for the workplace, and to the political and social fabric of the nation. Commonly suggested remedies - new free-speech rules, or enforced right-of-center appointments - will fail because they don’t touch the core problem, a controlling faculty majority of political activists with no real interest in scholarship. This book proposes more drastic and effective reform measures. The first step is for Americans to recognize that vast sums of public money intended for education are being diverted to a political agenda, and to demand that this fraud be stopped.

©2020 by John M. Ellis (P)2020 by Blackstone Publishing

A Beacon of Light in the Darkness of the Politically Correct Dictatorship

Outstanding, a masterpiece. This work is a beacon of light in the darkness of the politically correct dictatorship that the radical left is trying to impose by destroying the younger generations’s self stem and judgement capacity. I applaud and thank the author for the courage in preparing this detailed account of the criminal activities being done by radicals in our education institutions.

A great explanation on the devastating “ROT” in higher education

Ellis offers a very thoughtful explanation on the extreme radicalization and single minded left leaning orthodoxy continues on most college campus’s today. Ellis offers many solutions to course correct higher education back to the center. What would be most helpful for parents and students to use as a college selection process, would be a unbiased grading system based on truth, a fairness on expression of all ideas and a safe environment for all speech to have a voice of reason. I’m not talking about the lunacy of “safe spaces” or a college of snowflakes - I’m talking about places of learning that are exciting and challenging ….. and verbal or physical violence are absolutely not tolerated.

What a sad state of affairs

Wikipedia has been one of the greatest tragedies of this country. Anyone who wants to understand how it happened this book finally explains an easy to understand way.

A Sad Commentary

This book brings to light what is happening across college campuses. Free thought and civil discourse must be encouraged and fiercely protected in our great nation.

Our dumb down of education system

Kids today don''t know nothing of history. The following of our peoples foundation of our movement to strengthen our country.